Mercury IT Governance Center Voted 'Best Solution' by IT Executive Attendees MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., June 30 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Today, Mercury Interactive Corporation (NASDAQ:MERQ), the global leader in business technology optimization (BTO), announced that Mercury IT Governance Center(TM) was voted "Best Solution" by attendees at the Project and Portfolio Management 2005 event held June 27-28 at the Seaport Hotel in Boston, Massachusetts. The Project and Portfolio Management Awards honor technology and service providers for their solutions, programs, service and support, and design and delivery of presentations. The awards were voted on by the 150 end-user Information Technology (IT) executive decision-makers attending this event. Mercury was voted "Best Solution" for having the best overall software product for managing IT projects, resources and services. "The attending IT executives had many solutions to choose from and reviewed each based on a strict set of criteria," said Charles Badoian, global senior director for Project Portfolio Management. "The results of their voting recognized Mercury in the category as best solution." Mercury IT Governance Center helps CIOs and IT executives to manage the priorities, processes and people of IT. Customers use Mercury IT Governance offerings to: -- Gain control and visibility over IT costs, risks, resources and initiatives through a single system of record for IT; -- Run IT like a business by enabling IT and line of business executives to work together and make strategic tradeoffs over IT priorities and objectives -- centralizing critical IT initiatives such as demand management, project portfolio management and change management; -- Achieve "sustainable compliance" by establishing a repeatable, automated approach to managing ongoing compliance mandates such as Sarbanes-Oxley and support quality programs and process control frameworks such as Six-Sigma, CMMI (Capability Maturity Model Integration), ITIL (IT Infrastructure Library), ISO-9000, and COBIT (Control Objectives for Information and related Technologies); and -- Accelerate IT Governance initiatives without having to ramp up internal expertise or purchase additional infrastructure through Mercury Managed Services for IT Governance. "Mercury is honored to be recognized by the 150 IT executives as the "Best Solution" in the IT Governance market," said Alex Lobba, vice president of IT Governance at Mercury. "Mercury is committed to helping IT executives optimize IT Governance by controlling IT cost and risk, meeting compliance requirements and aligning IT with the business." Mercury IT Governance Leadership Mercury is one of the fastest growing vendors in the IT Governance market. Mercury is positioned in the leaders quadrant in Gartner Inc.'s "Magic Quadrant for IT Project and Portfolio Management, 2005." Mercury also received the highest possible ranking and was named the market leader in the AMR Research IT Portfolio Management Report: "IT Portfolio Management Software: Clear Benefits, Converging Marketplace," June 2004. Many companies in the Forbes Global 2000 have chosen Mercury IT Governance products including: 4 of the top 6 companies; 7 of the top 10 technology, hardware, and equipment companies; 5 of the top 7 consumer durables companies; 5 of the top 8 healthcare, equipment, and services companies; 3 of the top 5 aerospace and defense companies; 3 of the top 5 banks; and 4 of the top 7 business services and supplies companies. ABOUT VISION EVENTS Vision Events, a Gartner, Inc. (NYSE:ITNYSE:andNYSE:ITB) company, is a leading producer of highly focused business events that bring resellers and end users together with leading and emerging vendors in private case study presentations to form strategic partnerships and secure new business in the technology sector. Additional information about Vision Events can be found at http://www.visionevents.com/. ABOUT GARTNER Gartner, Inc. (NYSE:ITNYSE:andNYSE:ITB) is the leading provider of research and analysis on the global information technology industry. Gartner serves more than 10,000 clients, including chief information officers and other senior IT executives in corporations and government agencies, as well as technology companies and the investment community. The Company focuses on delivering objective, in-depth analysis and actionable advice to enable clients to make more informed business and technology decisions. The Company's businesses consist of Gartner Intelligence, research and events for IT professionals; Gartner Executive Programs, membership programs and peer networking services; and Gartner Consulting, customized engagements with a specific emphasis on outsourcing and IT management. Founded in 1979, Gartner is headquartered in Stamford, Connecticut, and has more than 3,500 associates, including approximately 1,000 research analysts and consultants, in more than 76 locations worldwide. For more information, visit http://www.gartner.com/. ABOUT MERCURY Mercury Interactive Corporation, the global leader in business technology optimization (BTO), is committed to helping customers optimize the business value of information technology. Founded in 1989, Mercury conducts business worldwide and is one of the fastest growing enterprise software companies today. Mercury provides software and services for IT Governance, Application Delivery, and Application Management. Customers worldwide rely on Mercury offerings to govern the priorities, processes and people of IT and test and manage the quality and performance of business-critical applications. Mercury BTO offerings are complemented by technologies and services from global business partners. For more information, please visit http://www.mercury.com/. The Magic Quadrant is copyrighted June 22, 2005 by Gartner, Inc. and is reused with permission. The Magic Quadrant is a graphical representation of a marketplace at and for a specific time period. It depicts Gartner's analysis of how certain vendors measure against criteria for that marketplace, as defined by Gartner. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in the Magic Quadrant, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors placed in the "Leaders" quadrant. The Magic Quadrant is intended solely as a research tool, and is not meant to be a specific guide to action. Gartner disclaims all warranties, express or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. For more information on the Gartner "Magic Quadrant for IT Project and Portfolio Management, 2005" please visit http://www.gartner.com/. The Forbes Global 2000 is a comprehensive list of the world's biggest and most powerful companies, as measured by a composite ranking for sales, profits, assets, and market value. Market value is as of Feb. 13. Sources: Exshare, FT Interactive Data, Reuters Fundamentals, and Worldscope via FactSet Research Systems; Bloomberg Financial Markets. Mercury, Mercury IT Governance Center, Mercury Managed Services and the Mercury logo are trademarks of Mercury Interactive Corporation and may be registered in certain jurisdictions. All other company, brand and product names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders. DATASOURCE: Mercury Interactive Corporation CONTACT: Erica Coleman of Mercury, +1-650-603-5865 or ; or Kim Milosevich of OutCast Communications, +1-415-392-8282 or , for Mercury Web site: http://www.mercuryinteractive.com/

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